{"id":1052928,"date":"2010-05-27T08:17:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T08:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/medical-blog-content-and-relationship-with-blogger-credentials-and-blog-host\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:46:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:46:54","slug":"medical-blog-content-and-relationship-with-blogger-credentials-and-blog-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/medical-blog-content-and-relationship-with-blogger-credentials-and-blog-host.php","title":{"rendered":"Medical blog content and relationship with blogger credentials and blog host"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A quantitative content analysis was performed on 398 blog posts from a constructed 1-week sample of posts in WebMD, Yahoo!Health Expert Blogs, and independently hosted blogs.<\/p>

Most health and medical blog posts highlighted and provided commentary pertaining to medical issues found in external media such as books, television, Web sites, magazines, and newspapers<\/p>

Only 16% contained actual health or medical information.<\/p>

Distinct differences in patterns of content were evident between credentialed and noncredentialed bloggers, as well as different blog hosts.<\/p>

References:
Health and medical blog content and its relationships with blogger credentials and blog host<\/a>. Buis LR, Carpenter S. Health Commun. 2009 Dec;24(8):703-10.<\/p>

Comments from Google Buzz:<\/b><\/p>

Shabber Hussain - Now if I can some how know about those 16% medical blogs that \"contain actual health or medical information\", it should make my day. Feb 26<\/p>

Arin Basu - I think (I just read the abstract perhaps a closer reading of the full text of the article might be more useful, @Ves, did you have a chance to read the full text?)<\/div>
* The findings are not unexpected, at least that's what you expect based on \"credentialing the blogger who has written the posts\"<\/div>
* There seems on first reading at leas the abstract that there may be quite a bit of bias in that study (just one week snapshot (too few blogs sampled), few selected sites (selection bias right there), and interpretation)<\/div>
* Not surprised that most blogs contained commentaries published in popular press and journals. <\/div>
I think that's what blogs should ideally do. Raise awareness, enable and alert people to read & interpret meanings. I'd not expect blogs to replace \"actual\" texts (well, that's my perspective)<\/div>
* Which makes @Shabber's point very pertinent, what are those 16% saying, on a one week selective sampling?

All in all, a very interesting article. I think it needs to be closely read and discussed in medical blogosphere. Feb 26<\/p><\/div>

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